Foreign News: Blue Pencil Wanted

M. Lunacharsky, who as Commissar of Education is also Supreme Lord
of Theatreland in All the Russias, is a playwright. Last week his Hertzog
(Duke) was produced at the People's Theatre in Moscow. That was not all.
At the Little Theatre in Moscow Julius Caesar, a play by a lesser author
named William Shakespeare, was also produced.

The Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian
viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They
thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian"
interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting,...